As we speak I reached a milestone for this weblog – 1000 followers! I’m so happy to have reached such a large viewers. I’ve additionally been loving listening to the latest success tales a few of you've gotten been having together with your manuscripts – some talked about on this weblog already, others to return over the following few months. Everyone knows what a tough and irritating journey it may be, and to listen to that publishers are nonetheless eager to just accept new authors is heartwarming certainly.
To rejoice I’d wish to give you a gift. Everyone knows how arduous it's to get a second opinion in your work. Scrub that – an sincere and helpful second opinion. Household are beautiful however will at all times say it’s ‘good’, even for those who give them a pencil and ask them to wash out entire chapters. Some writers swear by having a ‘beta reader’ – somebody to undergo an early draft and provides them a helpful critique earlier than they begin submitting. I've not too long ago began doing this with two different playwrights for the brief performs I’m engaged on and I really feel it has improved my work vastly, in addition to reducing the sense of writing ‘in a vacuum’. You will discover prepared beta readers in writers’ teams, on-line boards, social media teams, or websites the place you submit work up for others to critique and repay them the favour, corresponding to Authonomy.
Or – as a thanks for being such a stunning follower – you possibly can merely submit a remark beneath and I'll choose one out of a hat for a free writer-to-writer critique. (A pleasant, encouraging one, not a tearing-you-to-shreds one, delivered in confidence by e-mail, not printed on the weblog.)
It may very well be for a piece in progress, one thing you're getting ready for submission, or one thing you're already sending out however would love some suggestions on from a fellow writer. All I ask is that it’s underneath 50,000 phrases. For very brief works like image books I’d be completely happy to have a look at three.
Be happy to speak about your manuscript in your remark, or if you wish to play your playing cards near your chest then that’s superb as properly, simply make an observation so I do know you’re within the draw. After a month I'll print out this web page, reduce the feedback into strips, put them in a hat and ask considered one of my kids to drag one out, then the winner can e-mail me their work.